Ahmed El-Kishky
About
I'm a machine learning researcher with experience in NLP (large language models, machine translation, and information extraction), graph ml (representation learning), and recommender systems.
I graduated with a PhD from the Data Mining Group (DMG) at UIUC, where I had the privilege to be advised by Jiawei Han. I was also fortunate enough to have had my PhD studies funded by both an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and an NDSEG Graduate Research Fellowship.
My interests are broadly in large-scale machine learning, natural language processing, graph machine learning, and recommender systems.
Publications
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TwHIN: Embedding the Twitter Heterogeneous Information Network for Personalized Recommendation
Ahmed El-Kishky, Thomas Markovich, Serim Park, Chetan Verma, Baekjin Kim, Ramy Eskander, Yury Malkov, Frank Portman, Sofia Samaniego, Ying Xiao, Aria Haghighi.
KDD, Washington, DC, Aug. 2022.
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As Easy as 1, 2, 3: Behavioural Testing of NMT Systems for Numerical Translation
Jun Wang, Chang Xu, Francisco Guzman, Ahmed El-Kishky, Benjamin Rubinstein, Trevor Cohn.
Association of Computing Linguistics (ACL), Bangkok, Thailand, Aug. 2021.
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Adapting High-resource NMT Models to Translate Low-resource Related Languages without Parallel Data
Wei-jen Ko, Ahmed El-Kishky, Adithya Renduchintala, Vishrav Chaudhary, Naman Goyal, Francisco Guzman, Pascale Fung, Mona Diab, Philipp Koehn.
ACL, Bangkok, Thailand, Aug. 2021.
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Beyond English-Centric Multilingual Machine Translation
Angela Fan, Shruti Bhosale, Holger Schwenk, Zhiyi Ma, Ahmed El-Kishky, Siddharth Goyal, Mandeep Baines, Onur Celebi, Guillaume Wenzek, Vishrav Chaudhary, Naman Goyal, Tom Birch, Vitaliy Liptchinsky, Sergey Edunov, Eduard Grave, Michael Auli, Armand Joulin.
JMLR, Online, March 2021.
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Facebook AI’s WAT19 Myanmar-English Translation Task Submission
Peng-Jen Chen, Jiajun Shen, Matt Le, Vishrav Chaudhary, Ahmed El-Kishky, Guillaume Wenzek, Myle Ott, Marc'Aurelio Ranzato.
WAT, Hong Kong, China, Nov. 2019.
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NewsNetExplorer: Automatic Construction and Exploration of News Information Networks
Fangbo Tao, George Brova, Jiawei Han, Heng Ji, Chi Wang, Brandon Norick, Ahmed El-Kishky, Jialu Liu, Xiang Ren, Yizhou Sun.
KDD, Sydney, Australia, Aug. 2015.
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